On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 02:06:44PM -0700, Jorge Llambías wrote:
> la djorden cusku di'e
> > Or how about strange
> > things like "leka klama keinai cu xamgu".
>
> I would say it's equivalent to {na'e bo le ka klama cu xamgu}.
But this is a contradiction of what you say below...
> > Anyway, I dunno why the text rule allows a nai at the start, but
> > you're ignoring camgusmis' point by focusing on that---namely that
> > if nai is in UI, it can be used *anywhere*, and thus it should be
> > a word which makes sense to be used anywhere (like "ui").
>
> But it _is_ a word that makes sense used anywhere: it changes the
> previous word into an opposite. Isn't that how it works now,
> except now it only works with a selected set of previous words?
[...]
It's not how it works now, and if it were how it worked and it were
in UI, then using nai after a terminator as I suggested above would
have Weird Effects; it could not be equivalent to a na'ebo in front
of the last sumti.
What does nu'inai mean?
nu'i nai ge do mi gi mi do nu'u citka
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